When sin takes over a nation, the end result is always confusion. Anger, accusation, and lust for control become the order of the day. Servanthood gives way to the desire to dominate. Sadly, democracy falls to dictatorship. There is only one way out. PRAY. (See Proverbs 29:2)
– Carter Conlon –
Sins must be treated progressively one by one until all have been eliminated.
– Watchman Nee –
The Holy Spirit never enters a person and lets them live like the world. You can be sure of that.
– AW Tozer –
from A Man of God
Put off a sin or a piece of a sin every day.
– Samuel Rutherford –
Just a single sin left in your life is as dangerous as just a single rattlesnake left in your bed.
– Tim Challies –
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times (Matthew 18:21-22).
Peter did not seem to think that he was in danger of falling into sin; his question was, How often should I forgive my brother? But very soon we hear that Peter has fallen. I can imagine that when he did fall, the sweet thought came to him of what the Master had said. The voice of sin may be loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.
– DL Moody –
from Day by Day with D.L. Moody
Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.
– Thomas Brooks –
1608-1680
When I speak of a person growing in grace, I mean simply this —that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, and his spiritual mindedness more marked.
– JC Ryle –
One compromise here, another there, and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.
– AW Tozer –
from A Man of God